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Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.

If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end

Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan’s vampire project keeps growing its stunning cast. James Gunn casts doubts on ever returning to Brightburn. Deadpool and Wolverine merch teases a few peculiar variants. Plus, Star Wars: The Bad Batch teases a big chase in this week’s episode. Spoilers now!

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• Tesla's stock is down more than 10% in the past year, and Elon Musk's net worth has also fallen.
• As Tesla struggles, Musk appears to be fortifying his other businesses.
• Lately, the social-media platform X has begun to look more like regular old Twitter.

Tesla has been losing its luster this year as demand for electric vehicles wanes and pressures in China

• Google on Monday announced its enhanced Find My Device feature for Android phones is now available.
• Using a crowdsourced network of Androids, the feature can find your device even if it's offline.
• The release narrows the gap between Android and iOS "Find My" capabilities.

After

• I've traveled solo to nine countries in Southeast Asia.
• I've made many mistakes, from traveling during monsoon season to forgetting to bring enough cash.
• Travelers should make sure they plan ahead and research each country's culture.

Over the last two years, my journey as a travel enthusiast and Business Insider's travel reporter in

This morning, remembering I’d forgotten to order eclipse glasses, I wondered out loud: Would it be an absolutely awful idea to watch today’s solar eclipse on the Apple Vision Pro? I’m extremely not a camera expert, but I seem to recall that pointing a camera at the sun is bad. However, online answers vary widely, so I put the question to The Verge’s Emmy

• Trump's hush money judge on Monday set parameters for how he'll conduct jury selection next week.
• Judge Juan Merchan said he will not ask prospective jurors if they like Donald Trump.
• But jurors will be asked if they read the NY Times, and if they ascribe to QAnon beliefs.

Prospective jurors in Donald Trump's

• Google is changing Memegen, an internal message board, after arguments over the Israel-Hamas war.
• The thumbs-down feature, which functions similarly to Reddit, is being removed, as well as metrics.
• Google said the changes are in response to employee feedback, but some staffers

Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice introduced the blueprint for cinematic meta agents of chaos into pop culture long before Disney’s Genie from Aladdin or the MCU’s Deadpool and Loki. Without much of a mythology, save for some comparisons to trickster entities of folklore and classic lit like Puck from Shakespeare’s AMidsummer…

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• The DOJ rejected Republicans' demands for recordings of Biden's interview on classified documents. 
• Republicans already have access to the full transcripts of the interview.
• DOJ officials accused Republicans of seeking the recordings in order to stoke political tensions. 

The Department of Justice on Monday strongly rejected Republicans' demands for audio recordings of Pr

• Tesla settled a wrongful-death lawsuit related to a fatal 2018 crash.
• Walter Huang's family sued after the Apple engineer died when his Tesla was in Autopilot mode.
• Details of the settlement — which happened just before the planned trial — were not disclosed.

Tesla settled a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the family of an Apple engineer who died after his Tesla crashed while